Word: scale
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...compress this vast story into a popular film biography involves a challenge that might well deter Hollywood. On a less ambitious scale-and aiming to teach as much as to entertain-the Radio and Film Commission of the U.S. Methodist Church has produced John Wesley, a 77-minute "semidocumentary" in color. Made at cost ($200,000) by Britain's J. Arthur Rank, a zealous Methodist himself, it is "for use in the churches...
Isolationists argue that U.S. entry into the Indo-China war will lead to full-scale war with Communist China. But Chinese fear of our massive retaliation would make such a war unlikely. War is, however, a risk the United States must take. The only alternative to this risk is Communist control of Southeast Asia...
...addition to their role yesterday in approving the polio tests for Massachusetts, Harvard doctors have contributed research indispensable to the large-scale manufacture of the vaccine. Dr. John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, Dr. Thomas H. Weller, associate professor of Tropical Public Health, and Dr. Leonard R. Robbins, research fellow in Medicine, devised the basic method of tissue culture used in making the serum...
...America would be quick to enter the war, they thought, if Red China were to take a large-scale role in the fighting. Up to now, Mao Tsc-Tung's forces have limited themselves to giving supplies to the Vietminh troops...
While giving this explanation, H.A.A. Business Manager Carroll F. Getchell added that the new scale would probably be "more or less" standard throughout the League. Officials from Ivy schools discussed football ticket rates in March, but no binding agreements were made, according to Getchell...